John Green Keynote | SLJ Summit 2017

by Kathy Ishizuka
Oct 14, 2017 | Filed in News & Features
Author John Green opened School Library Journal's 2017 Leadership Summit in Nashville, TN, with an emotional keynote. Here's the video.

Photo by Kerry Woo for School Library Journal.

Author John Green opened School Library Journal's 2017 Leadership Summit in Nashville, TN, with an emotional keynote on October 7, just prior to the release of his novel Turtles All the Way Down (Penguin Random House).

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